For those of you who know me, Henry was my basset hound, and the fictitious name used during (ahem) special research. I'm a former intelligence officer, a professional analyst, and a blogger since 2004 writing about my experiences on the journey --information security, cyber intelligence, education, thoughts. Some love my writings others hate it. If you like it, follow me!

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Red Sky | Beadwindow - One Week Down, many more to go!

For those of you are
new to Red Sky, you may not be familiar with Henrybasset’s “Red Sky Alliance”
blog published each week by Red Sky co-founder, Jeff Stutzman.As an extension to that blog, we will are
publishing a second blog, Beadwindow.This companion blog will communicate the weekly activity of the
Beadwindow community.As things grow, so
too will the discussions and information.It is our sincerest hope that you find this blog both informative and a
reaffirmation that collaboration and information sharing DOES work and IS the
model for success in fighting the TTP threat.

Beadwindow?As the new CIO for Red Sky, one of my first
tasks was to get the Beadwindow portal up and running and to immediately help
our community members with collaboration in defining the threats they are
seeing on their networks.This is not an
easy objective. Having come from the government sector, sharing information is
not a natural habit.Beadwindow, being
private-public cyber partnership, is pushing those longtime cultural behaviors
aside and providing both a means and trust to break through the barriers that
have plagued the government sector.

With this in mind, I am
very pleased to report that Beadwindow is already providing a valuable space
for our early adopters from both significant municipalities and state
governments to connect, interact, and build long-standing relationships
with.I believe that the only way we can
protect our critical infrastructure as well as our intellectual property is if
we work together – Red Sky provides the space, all we need to for you to do is maximize its
potential.

Before I wrap up this
first installment of the Beadwindow blog, I wanted to remind each everyone that
Beadwindow members have access to Red Sky’s Norman Malware Analyzer (MAG2) device.We are already seeing a lot of activity with
our MAG2 – keep it coming!The MAG2
device is capable of analyzing up to 40,000 separate pieces of malware a
day!The MAG2 is an excellent “first
responder’s” device and should be an immediate resource in your triage
plans.DO NOT let this resource go
unused.